Word: prowesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more interest to outsiders than the depiction of Princeton's prowess at sports was the fact that Mr. Yarrow had executed his 13 murals in the technique used by the early Renaissance masters-egg-tempera emulsion...
...years old, Jeanne Vizetelly Cochrane had a birthday party at her home in The Bronx, N. Y. Because she is the granddaughter and favorite prodigy of famed old Lexicographer Frank Horace Vizetelly, editor of the Standard Dictionary, all her friends and relatives gathered for news of her linguistic prowess. At the age of 18 months Jeanne had mastered 300 words. When she was 4. her grandfather placed her vocabulary at 5,800, listed the words to prove it. Proudly, last week, Grandfather Vizetelly reported: "Jeanne has learned 2,000 words this year. She will continue at this rate until...
Gestures of this sort, and the fact that attendance is not so far ahead of last year's as it should be in view of the team's prowess, irritate its owner, Chicago's Major Frederic McLaughlin who attends Black Hawks' games with his famed wife, Irene Castle McLaughlin. On Goaltender Chabot, disdainful, lazy and alert, they have no effect whatever. Occupied entirely with his job of making saves-i. e. keeping the puck out of the goal-Chabot is irritated only when he fails to do so. Last fortnight he clubbed a goal judge with...
...half a dozen corporations, a close friend of many a tycoon. He established the case system of instruction, designed to ground students solidly in the practical, day-to-day problems of big corporations. Immensely proud is he of his school's high standing among corporate employers, its prowess in finding jobs for graduates in prosperity or depression...
Soon, on campuses all over the East, students began to hear from one or two respected classmates glowing descriptions of Philip Morris cigarets. Football players found their prowess rewarded with "flat fifties." Any man who was elected to a class office or chosen as a Rhodes Scholar was presented with "flat fifties." College sports editors were asked to run score-predicting contests with Philip Mor- ris cigarets as the prize...